Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...

In a society where waste is so pervasive, the current ingestion of microplastics should be treated as a health crisis ...

Recent research from The Rockefeller University suggests a unique mutation in the NOVA1 gene, specific to humans, played a ...

Data across countries and ages reveals a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning. Read ...